2 Chronicles 20:34

_NOW THE REST OF THE ACTS OF JEHOSHAPHAT, FIRST AND LAST, BEHOLD, THEY ARE WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF JEHU THE SON OF HANANI, WHO IS MENTIONED IN THE BOOK OF THE KINGS OF ISRAEL._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

31-37 Jehoshaphat kept close to the worship of God, and did what he could to keep his people close to it. But after God had done such great things for him, given him not only victory, but wealth; after this, to go and join himself with a wicked king, was very ungrateful. What could he expect but that God would be angry with him? Yet it seems, he took the warning; for when Ahaziah afterward pressed him to join him, he would not, 1 Kings 22:49. Thus the alliance was broken, and the Divine rebuke had its effect, at least for a season. Let us be thankful for any losses which may have prevented the loss of our immortal souls. Let us praise the Lord, who sought after us, and left us not to perish in our sins....

Verse 2 Chronicles 20:34. _IN THE BOOK OF JEHU_] This is totally lost, though it is evident that it was in being when the books of Chronicles were written....

WHO IS MENTIONED ... - Words which are now generally thought to mean “whose work was inserted into the Book of the Kings.” OF ISRAEL - “Israel” is probably used here inexactly for “Judah” (compare2 Chronicles 12:6; 2 Chronicles 21:2, 2 Chronicles 21:4)....

EXPOSITION Of this chapter, with its thirty-seven verses, only the six verses (31-36) find any duplicate or parallel in Kings (1 Kings 22:41-11). The chapter is occupied with a statement of the invasion of Judah by Moabites and Ammonites and certain problematical others (2 Chronicles 20:1, 2 Chronicles 20:2); with an account of the way in which the king and people prepared to meet the crisis (2 Chronicles 20:3); with the prophecy of Jahaziel the Levite as to how, under certain conditions, things would go ...

NOW THE REST OF THE ACTS OF JEHOSHAPHAT, FIRST AND LAST,.... Those that were done at the beginning, and those that were done at the latter end of his reign: BEHOLD, THEY ARE WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF JEHU, THE SON OF HANANI, WHO IS MENTIONED IN THE BOOK OF THE KINGS OF ISRAEL; see 1 Kings 16:1, the same that reproved Jehoshaphat, 2 Chronicles 19:2. He wrote a book of his own times, and which was so much esteemed, according to Kimchi, that it was written with, or put along with, the book of the kings of Israel, for so he interprets the phrase; but the Targum understands it of Jehu being the king's historiographer, who had the care and oversight of the diary, journal, or annals of the kings of Israel....

CHAPTER 20 JUDAH INVADED, JEHOSHAPHAT'S PRAYER AND DELIVERANCE _ 1. The invasion (2 Chronicles 20:1)_ 2. Jehoshaphat's great prayer (2 Chronicles 20:3) 3. Jehovah's answer through Jahaziel (2 Chronicles 20:14) 4. Prostrated before the LORD (2 Chronicles 20:18) 5. The great deliverance (2 Chronicles 20:20) 6. In the valley of Berachah (2 Chronicles

Jehoshaphat's victory over the Ammonites and Moabites. This story of a miraculous battle is perhaps a _midrash_ on the war described in 1 Kings 3:4 ff., and has, in so far, some historical basis; but the details are purely imaginary. 2 Chronicles 20:5. before the new court: perhaps the same as the great court in 2 Chronicles 4:9; the Chronicler has in his mind's eye the Temple as he knew it. 2 Chronicles 20:7. Abraham thy friend: _cf._ Isaiah 41:8;...

BOOK. words. JEHU. Compare 2 Chronicles 19:2....

_in the book of Jehu_ R.V. IN THE HISTORY OF JEHU. _Jehu_ See 2 Chronicles 19:2 (note). _who is mentioned_ R.V. WHICH IS INSERTED. Chronicles of particular reigns were joined together to form one continuous Chronicle....